Our new member Nick Connell gave the club a little personal background.  He moved to Reno from the East Bay in 2013 and presently works for LP Insurance helping employers set up their employee medical and dental benefit plans.  His background is banking and finance.  He has always been active in sports and likes to snowboard in the winter months and race motocross in the warmer times of the year.  He has also been a member of Toastmasters International for 3 years and enjoys learning all of the nuances of public speaking.  He is engaged and looks forward to getting married later this year.  Welcome Nick!

Mark Pingle, Professor of Economics at University of Nevada, gave a thought-provoking presentation on Rational vs. Irrational Economic Decisions.  I found his discussions on behavioral economics enlightening.  New terms such as Status Quo Bias, Loss Aversion, Endowment Effect, Certainty Effect, Present Bias, Positive and Negative Reciprocity and the effects of Ambiguity on the decision making process were explained with commonly encountered scenarios in public and private life.  For example when explaining the Certainty Effect he used a scene from the movie "Dumb and Dumber" where Lloyd Christmas, played by Jim Carrey, asks Mary Swanson if he might have a one in a thousand chance with her.  When she told him it was more like one in a million he exclaimed, "So you say there is a chance!"

After careful consideration of several venues for our future meetings, the Board of Directors approved Swill Coffee & Wine at 3366 Lakeside Ct. in Reno starting in July 2022. 

This past weekend Jon Greene, Shawn Stoddard, Carolyn Abend, and Craig Sande attended the District 5190 Club Leadership Assembly.  It was well attended with excellent instructors.  The information gleaned will help us make our club even more effective in the future.  Please consider attending next year, regardless of club leadership position, and learn more about Rotary and ways to provide service locally and internationally.